Paul Pelletier
Principal and Co-Founder
Paul has over 25 years of experience in the engineering, emergency management, homeland security, and technology sectors. As one of the founders of iParametrics, he has performed technical and programmatic management for all company emergency management, risk and homeland security programs since 2005.
Paul’s forward-thinking vision has led the company into new sectors, including data analytics and artificial intelligence, and to continued growth over its lifespan. Paul’s management has led to a successful renewal of the FEMA Public Assistance contract and continued growth in the emergency management market.
Paul is retired from the United States Marine Corp, is a Texas Department of Public Safety and Virginia State Certified Risk Manager (Class B), and holds Public Trust and DOE clearances.
Andrew Klein
Principal and Co-founder
Andrew has over 40 years of experience in management, engineering, and entrepreneurial roles. His experience ranges from Systems Engineer for Martin Marietta’s Space System Division, playing a key role in the commercialization of Expendable Launch Vehicles, to creating and managing one of the first interactive online business-consumer databases (“Hello Yellow”), which landed him on the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine.
He also served as a consultant to a number of Fortune 50 companies, advising them on organizational strategies and efficiencies, customer-driven marketing, new product introduction, and product and brand management. Andrew provides oversight for the firm’s successful contracts with FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Andrew holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Denver and an Undergraduate Degree from the State University of New York. He holds Public Trust and DOE clearances.
Eddie Wise, CCP
VP of Security & Risk Management
Eddie has over 34 years of hands-on experience supervising emergency management, security, and risk solutions around the world, including federally designated critical infrastructure. He has personally assessed over 4,500 facilities.
Eddie has years of experience managing large multi-year, nationwide security programs and has been involved in protecting some of the nation’s most critical infrastructure, including the Department of Energy’s Western Area Power Administration Physical Security Program throughout its 15-state region. Eddie is responsible for the development and execution of physical security, threat and hazard analysis with penetration testing, law enforcement, emergency management and force protection doctrine, operations, and plans for federal, state, and local clients, all of which rely on Eddie’s decades of experience to create safer, more secure facilities and infrastructure.
His experience spans the United States, from the Rio Grande for the International Boundary and Water Commission Security Access Control Program, to every state in the United States’ Social Security Administration offices. Eddie holds a Department of Defense TS/SCI, Department of Energy “Q” security clearances, and HSPD-12 compliant screening by the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service.
Jeff Stevens, CEM, MEP
VP of Emergency Management
Jeff has over 15 years of experience in leading emergency management projects, divisions, and solutions. He works closely with our clients to improve their resilience and enhance their recovery efforts. From hurricanes, floods and snowstorms to terrorism and pandemics, he understands what it takes to not only respond to these types of events but recover stronger than before. Prior to joining iParametrics, Jeff rebuilt the emergency management program at New York University, one of the largest private universities in the country.
He also worked for the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency and the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response providing leadership on several key initiatives. This varied background allows Jeff to be an asset to our clients no matter the challenge.
He is a hands-on leader known for his dogged advocacy on behalf of the communities we serve. He constantly identifies opportunities to ensure that our clients are leveraging all possible avenues to enhance their preparedness or build back better after a disaster. Jeff is a Certified Emergency Manager and FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner. He holds numerous Incident Management Team certifications and is also a volunteer firefighter.
Cokey Mills, CCP
Vice President, Program & Cost Management
Cokey is a Senior Certified Cost Engineer with over 30 years of experience in all aspects and divisions of estimating and project management. He has performed and managed a broad range of estimating projects for the EPC, government/military, industrial, and commercial sectors.
He has extensive experience preparing all levels of estimates from conceptual and schematic, to construction and final. He has conducted estimate and quality control reviews to ensure accurate submittals to clients, owners, and stakeholders within time and budget constraints.
Cokey has a strong background with project controls and scheduling, value engineering, Earned Value Management, risk analysis, change order management, and conducting design charrettes. He currently holds a Secret Security Clearance.
John Lorimer
Vice President, Analytics & Decision Sciences
As Vice President of Analytics Product Management for iParametrics, John oversees the application of advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to Public Assistance projects to shorten response times, improve performance, and achieve greater cost efficiency.
John has over 40 years of experience in product management, project management, marketing, and analytics in a wide variety of industries, including over 13 years of experience managing marketing, product development, and project management for advanced analytics / machine learning products for LexisNexis Risk Management.
While at LexisNexis, in his role as VP of Analytics Product Management, John led the development of a unique initiative to develop a cross-industry data- and machine-learning-based product set for addressing and combatting financial fraud, that encompassed banking, insurance, retail, telecommunication and national, state, and local governments. John combines deep management experience with an entrepreneurial mindset in order to address old challenges in new ways.
Micah Kirkpatrick
Chief Data Scientist
Micah has over 13 years of experience in data analytics, predictive modeling, and project management. Within this role he applies data science and deep learning models to support disaster recovery and security programs.
As a Data Scientist, Micah has developed predictive models for advanced equity options strategies using many types of machine learning algorithms. He uses these tools to make predictions, mine data, and apply machine learning algorithms to understand the economy, disaster spending, and weather tracking.
He has been heavily involved with data mining and feature engineering for geospatial purposes involving LiDAR point-cloud data and other integral data relative to the predictive modeling process. Micah served in the United States Marine Corps and earned an MBA in the Management of Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology. He currently holds a Department of Homeland Security Public Trust Security Clearance.
Andrea Young, MEP, MT
Training & Exercise Director
Andrea is an expert trainer, planner, facilitator and exercise coordinator with more than fifteen years’ experience. She has designed and delivered hundreds of high-quality, engaging workshops, training programs and HSEEP-compliant exercises. She is a Certified Instructional Designer.
Andrea’s work with the National Center for Campus Public Safety as well as the Program and Training Manager as well as Sate of Vermont’s Exercise Officer and Homeland Security Unit Training Coordinator allows her to provide effective solutions for all iParametrics clients. Andrea is a FEMA-certified Master Exercise Practitioner and Master Trainer.
Wendy Dorsey
Data and Governance Manager
Wendy is responsible for enterprise level business intelligence and data warehousing including the architecture, design, and deployment of scalable and highly available solutions.
She has hands-on experience with over 15 years of project and team management, 20+ years of data architecture design, development, and performance tuning, and extensive knowledge and expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Modeling, and Data Warehousing.
Wendy has superior analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. She is responsible for the full systems development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through implementation and maintenance of various functional architecture solutions.
Michelle Erste, CPSM
Marketing Director
Combining her upbringing – she is the daughter of transportation engineer – and her education – she was a theater director in New York City, Michelle has spent the past 15 years leading marketing research and strategy, training, and proposal development for small, mid-size, and mega-engineering firms.
In this role, she has led corporate rebranding, technical writing, staff training, marketing research, and graphic design efforts. In addition to her work in marketing for engineering firms, she has been involved in public engagement for transit and transportation projects in metro Atlanta.
Michelle is an active member of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Atlanta, serving as President from 2018 to 2019, and was named Marketer of the Year by the chapter in 2016. She completed her undergraduate studies in theater at New York University and her MBA in Marketing at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Ariel Siegel
Geospatial Engineering Manager
Ariel currently serves on iParametrics’ Data Analytics team as a Geospatial Engineer after graduating with a Masters's degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her coursework throughout the completion of her undergraduate and graduate degrees focused heavily on risk assessments and hazard mitigation.
Through her work as a research assistant during her graduate and undergraduate studies, Ariel gained extensive knowledge in developing and implementing geotechnical engineering learning modules, modeling the geometry of levees, assigning soil parameters, performing Slide 7.0 analyses, and examining the effects of saline water versus fresh water on soil parameters through laboratory testing.
Ariel is experienced in performing and analyzing laboratory data, utilizing software such as LPile, FB-Deep, ArcGIS, Quantum GIS, and Qlik, automating geospatial data acquisition and processing, and creating visualizations in order to communicate geospatial data.
Heidi Schuster, PHR, SHRM-CP
Resource Manager
Heidi has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources Management, Technical Recruiting, and Administrative Consulting. She provides oversight of recruiting and related human resources functions.
As Resource Manager, she is directly responsible for recruiting and overseeing a team that recruits for key positions in our firm, including data scientists, data analysts, engineers, architects, estimators, construction professionals, disaster recovery specialists, homeland security specialists, and environmental/historic preservation specialists throughout the United States and its territories.